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Finland's Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim dropped in last week on a noted acquaintance. Adolf Hitler, at the Führer's field headquarters somewhere in Shangrila. In Berne and Berlin (but not in Helsinki) the meeting was billed as a return visit, for Hitler had dropped in last month on the Baron's 75th birthday party in Helsinki (TIME, June 15) to give him the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle and have a little talk. Last week's meeting, said Berlin, was "marked by hearty friendship." Hermann...
...Helsinki last week a surprise guest crashed a birthday party. It was Adolf Hitler. He appeared at a celebration in honor of Finland's hard-bitten Field Marshal, Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, now a well-preserved 75, who was probably less surprised than most of his countrymen...
...great resources of the United States, the abundant strength of the Allied cause, cannot rely on success through some ultimate victory. For if it takes too long, it will not be a victory at all. The process of economic, human, and spiritual liquidation, pressing on disillusioned people from Helsinki to Gibraltar . . . will of itself create the defeat of peace. The thoughts, the determination of countless democratic men and women are delayed from our awful task at hand by the overevaluation of our ultimate strength. . . . Either we hurry, either we do God's task with speed, or there...
...Thus, Helsinki's Uusi Suomi expressed its-and many a Finn's-fed-upness on the war against Russia last week. With the more leftist Suomen Sosialidemo-kraati, organ of the strongest Finnish labor groups, expressing the same sentiments, there was sound indication this week that all Finland was feeling the same...
...HELSINKI--The Russians have been evacuating the Hango Naval base, 70 miles southwest of Helstaki, the last Finnish territory still occupied by Soviet forces, it was announced today...